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. 2017 Sep 7;46(5):1699–1710. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyx177

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Creation of a gold standard dataset for evaluating linkage quality in the HES mother-baby cohort. ¹83 195 records of births/deliveries from 15 English hospitals, April 2012–March 2013; ²672 955 records of births/deliveries from all NHS hospitals in England, April 2012–March 2013; ³72 817 records in the HES mother-baby validation cohort (gold standard).